•  Check-in
• Registration to conference
• Welcome dinner

• Coffee in the conference room and networking
• Introduction of the conference presentation of the day
• Patient organizations presentations: best practices, success stories, posters
• Break, networking by regions
• Workshops: ”What are the roles and what is important in the patient organization to better support patients, to enlarge awareness, for strong advocacy and recognition of the roles of our patient organizations by health authorities, dermatology societies, dermatologist unions and pharma industries involved in vitiligo ?”
• Workshop reports and synthesis with main recommendations, choice of 4 major recommendations to be implemented
• Panel Discussion “How to improve and/or launch new initiatives to better support patients, their families by caregivers”
• Lunchtime

Afternoon

• 20 years of evolution, what is the new advocacy and awareness landscape for patient organizations today? »
• Panel discussion « USA, Europe, India : 3 landscapes, what lessons can be learned from these developments? »
• Workshop Sessions “How dermatologists, patients, and the pharmaceutical industry can collaborate for better impact without losing independence”
• Break, networking by regions
• Synthesis of workshop discussion and choice of most important actions to be promoted
• Conference discussion « Importance of vitiligo patient organizations, how to support, act and advocate
• Dinner

• Coffee in the conference room and networking
• Workshops ”Why do patient organizations need to participate in national guidelines? What can I do? How do I prepare the way? With whom to collaborate? Sharing experiences and future networks
• Synthesis of workshop discussion and choice of most important actions to be promoted
• Global discussion
• Networking Break
• Workshops by Region « How to leverage vitiligo patient interests and organisations at the regional level? How can we work together with collaboration actions ?»
• Synthesis of workshop discussion and choice of most important actions to be promoted per region
• Lunch Break

Afternoon

• Panel discussion and interaction with attendees “Patient representatives’ involvement in the clinical trial process, scientific studies to have patient inputs and recruitment ways. How to work with a vitiligo scientific council?”
• Synthesis of the discussion and orientations for patient organisations
• Panel discussion “Methods to engage and recruit younger members for our organisations, What can we offer?”
• Round table discussion « Future Directions and Collaborative Initiatives towards 2026 »
• VIPOC Research: Vitiligo International Symposium attendees and VIPOC conference participants at VIPOC hotel

• Vitiligo physiopathology. How does it work in the skin ? 
• New findings in vitiligo, future medical support for patients 
• Burden data and patient representatives’ involvement in scientific studies 
• Vitiligo intenational Recommendations: treatments and Decision Algorithm

Afternoon – Patient leaders/Researchers/Dermatologists/Pharma

• Vitiligo pipelines : Who works on which aspects ? 
• Clinical trials (closed, ongoing, forecasted)
• A promising future with new drugs 
• Access to data and explanation of the results for advocacy projects 
• How do we involve patient organizations involvement in the cure and care process ?
• Build a fruitful collaboration between patients and healthcare professionals 
• Invitation of VIPOC conference attendees to Vitiligo International Symposium gala dinner

•  Attendees check out before 10.00 am